Wounded

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - WASHINGTON

February 3, 1989

A U.S. Army sergeant was in critical condition Thursday after he was apparently shot by a hunter near Fort Sherman on the Atlantic coast of Panama on Tuesday, the Defense Department said. Staff Sgt. John Bright, 28, of Houston, was placed on a ventilator when his heart stopped beating after brain surgery Wednesday at Gorgas Army Hospital in Panama City, the Pentagon said. The Pentagon said Bright's U.S. Special Forces patrol was on a night-field exercise in a hunting area when Bright was hit by a single shotgun blast.